Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence startup, founded in 2021 by Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark, and Ben Mann.

AI lobbying at the U.S. federal level is intensifying in the midst of a continued generative AI boom and an election year that could influence future AI regulation. New data…

AI startups ramp up federal lobbying efforts

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has revealed an early-stage probe into Google’s ties with Anthropic, after the Alphabet subsidiary invested in its U.S. AI rival over several rounds. While it’s not…

UK antitrust body probes Google’s ties with AI rival Anthropic

Menlo Ventures and Anthropic are teaming up on a $100 million fund dubbed “the Anthology Fund” to invest in pre-seed and Series A AI startups.

Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund

Anthropic launched its Claude Android app on Tuesday to bring its AI chatbot to more users. This is Anthropic’s latest effort to convince users to ditch ChatGPT by making Claude…

Anthropic releases Claude app for Android

Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it. Anthropic released several new…

Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps

Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own…

Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

OpenAI rival Anthropic released its newest generative AI model this week, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. While Sonnet is an improvement over Anthropic’s last release, it’s not…

TechCrunch Minute: Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 is its best model yet — at least on paper

Claude 3.5 Sonnet can analyze both text and images as well as generate text, and it’s Anthropic’s best-performing model yet — at least on paper.

Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class

VCs are clamoring to invest in hot AI companies, and willing to pay exorbitant share prices for coveted spots on their cap tables. Even so, most aren’t able to get…

VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market

Jan Leike, a leading AI researcher who earlier this month resigned from OpenAI before publicly criticizing the company’s approach to AI safety, has joined OpenAI rival Anthropic to lead a…

Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team

Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the…

Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

On the heels of OpenAI announcing the latest iteration of its GPT large language model, its biggest rival in generative AI in the U.S. announced an expansion of its own.…

Anthropic is expanding to Europe and raising more money

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit.

Anthropic’s Claude sees tepid reception on iOS compared with ChatGPT’s debut

AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least.  Announced in a post on the company’s official…

Anthropic now lets kids use its AI tech — within limits

Anthropic, the generative AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, is launching a new paid plan aimed at business customers.

Anthropic launches new iPhone app and premium plan for businesses

The UK is launching initial enquiries into Amazon and Microsoft over partnerships with AI companies Mistral, Anthropic, and Inflection.

UK probes Amazon and Microsoft over AI partnerships with Mistral, Anthropic and Inflection

If you build it, people will try to break it. Sometimes even the people building stuff are the ones breaking it. Such is the case with Anthropic and its latest research…

TechCrunch Minute: How Anthropic found a trick to get AI to give you answers it’s not supposed to

How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which…

Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions

The current AI wave is a never-ending barrage of news items. To understand what I mean, ask yourself how long you spent considering the fact that Amazon put another $2.75…

TechCrunch Minute: Amazon bets $4B on Anthropic’s success

Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the…

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment

This week, Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google, Amazon and a who’s who of VCs and angel investors, released a family of models — Claude 3 — that it…

We tested Anthropic’s new chatbot — and came away a bit disappointed

AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of its GenAI tech, Claude.…

Anthropic claims its new AI chatbot models beat OpenAI’s GPT-4

Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics and redirect…

Anthropic takes steps to prevent election misinformation

The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. Orders have been sent to Alphabet, Amazon,…

FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings

Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they’re exceptionally good at it. A recent…

Anthropic researchers find that AI models can be trained to deceive

The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting up AI models to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how can you reduce biases if…

Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely

The OpenAI train wreck may be playing out in slow motion before our eyes, but the company’s competition isn’t sitting around gawking. Anthropic just released Claude 2.1, an improvement on…

Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 release shows the competition isn’t rubbernecking the OpenAI disaster

With a massive $2 billion reported investment from Google, Anthropic joins OpenAI in reaping the benefits of leadership in the artificial intelligence space, receiving immense sums from the tech giants…

AI’s proxy war heats up as Google reportedly backs Anthropic with $2B

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Amazon has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in the AI startup Anthropic, the two firms said, as the e-commerce group steps up its rivalry against Microsoft, Meta, Google…

Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic